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we got them to accept of any return at all adequate to their donations. 

 The latter end of January a party was sent up the country to look 

 a little about them. They set out in the evening, and where they 

 halted for the night were overtaken and joined by a man from 

 old Ca'ha'ha's, who was the chief-priest, or as we termed him, the 

 bishop. This good old gentleman hearing that some people were 

 upon an expedition about the isle, sent this man after them with 

 a general order that they should be supplied with whatever they 

 wanted, wherever they thought proper to travel. This honest fellow, 

 Car'na'care, who I believe is son to the bishop, certainly brought 

 off this flesh with a most friendly intention ; he begs we will put no 

 kind of trust in the social aspects and promises of his countrymen, for 

 that they do mean and are determined to do us farther mischief 

 if they possibly can. Old Co'ah'ah, he says, they make use of as a 

 spy to examine our condition of defence, etc., having some notion 

 of attacking the ships. Here are clearly party matters subsisting 

 between the laity and the clergy, and in these cases a strict attention 

 to the representation of either, I believe, is generally wide of the 

 truth ; however, we must take care not to lay ourselves so open as 

 to render it possible for any plan of treachery to reach us ; and as 

 to their attack upon the ships, I should imagine it must turn out to 

 them the most unhappy expedition they ever experienced. After 

 staying on board about two hours, Car'na'care returned to the shore, 

 observing that regard to his safety obliged him to make his visit in 

 the dark, for should it be publicly known they would immediately 

 destroy him. As the command of course now devolved to me, 

 I appointed myself to the Resolution ; Mr. Gore, the first lieutenant 

 of that ship, to the command of the Discovery ; Mr. King the first, 

 Mr. Williamson, the second, and Mr. William Harvey, who is now 

 upon his third trip with Captain Cook, to be the third lieutenant 

 of the Resolution. I know nothing of any particular commands 

 of their Lordships in case of vacancies, but have often heard Captain 

 Cook, in private conversation, declare his intention of making Mr. 

 Harvey a lieutenant ; and as I am perfectly ignorant of their 

 Lordships' pleasure upon that head, I hope they will approve of my 

 attention and respect to the memory of that great navigator, in 

 acting consistently with his avowed purposes." 



" Wednesday, llth February, 1779. 



"Early this afternoon an impudent rascal came off from the 

 town, on the north-west point, and having advanced to within 200 

 yards of the ship, waved a hat to us, which I could clearly dis- 

 tinguish to have been that of Captain Cook. He then put it upon 

 his head and flung some stones from a sling towards the ship, 

 whilst the vast concourse of people upon the shore were shouting 

 and laughing. This was too gross an insult to bear with any degree 

 of patience. The rascal in his canoe, being right ahead of the ship, 

 soon perceived the people getting into the boat, and made for the 

 shore with too much celerity for us to come near him. I did not 

 fire at him, as it's great odds but he was missed, which would farther 

 shew them the fallibility of our arms, However, as he was un- 

 doubtedly set on by the people on shore, who were still upon the 

 rocks by the water side, though the ship was too far off to throw 

 the shot with the exactitude I could wish, still we were not quite 



